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weird hard drive problem
hey guys, question.
i have an extra sata 120gig hard drive in the second slot in my dual 1.8g5
its acting…really….slow. i never edit off of this drive, just use it as a place to backup full rendered movie files, for quick access. (lazyness purposes, lol)
anyway, i had to edit a reel this weekend, and all the files barely playback (they are just dv quicktimes)
im goign to backthem up tonight onto a new drive, but, like, its going to take FOREVER.
first off…this drive doesnt get used much, is it just junk, its a maxtor, i know those usually arent that great. (in fact, the only dead hard drives ive ever had are max’s)
anyway, any reason for thios to happen…will i be able to just re-format and it’ll magically work again?
thanks for your replies,
-ben
http://www.benjaminoliver.netp.s. wish me luck, im interviewing tomorrow for a tv show edit for a broadcast show!!
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3 Replies
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I would certainly run Disk Warrior on the drive. However, you didn’t tell us how full the drive is. Throughput on SATA drives begins to slow down at 50% full and performance becomes appreciably clunky as the drive approaches 90% full and higher.
DRW
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interesting.there is only 2 gigs left!
maybe clearing some stuff of it, and re-formatting will help.
ill run discwarrior too
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Ben,
If clearing 10% or 20% off the drive doesn’t substancially improve its performance, I’ll eat the hard drive. But do run Disk Warrior on it too please, as I may need my teeth for something else in this lifetime other than chowing down on your SATA drive.
DRW
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